CVE-2026-72633 is a vulnerability in Elastic Kibana
Published on September 1, 2026
Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Disabling of Privilege Monitoring
Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana Entity Analytics can lead to a loss of security monitoring via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). An authenticated user holding only read-level Security feature access, and no Elasticsearch privileges, could stop the recurring Privilege Monitoring engine task for a Kibana space. Privileged user monitoring then stops producing data for that space while the engine continues to report a healthy state to operators.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-72633 can be exploited with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity, and no impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is an AuthZ Vulnerability?
The software performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check. This allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.
CVE-2026-72633 has been classified to as an AuthZ vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-72633
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Affected Versions
Elastic Kibana:- Version 9.1.0, <= 9.4.5 is affected.
- Version 9.5.0, <= 9.5.1 is affected.